__________________"I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious." Thomas Jefferson- Letter to William Ludlow, September 6, 1824

I'm with you on this Bob. Having the pleasure to have shot lots of firearms from single shots to full auto to suppressed, hands down the funnest firearm I have ever shot is my 1988 Buckmark. Accurate, silky smooth, and inexpensive to shoot, it is the pride of my safe.

__________________"I have no issues with people of all types being here, I do have a problem with the more extreme ends of any spectrum trying to dominate and push out moderates and opposites." Bill Plein

Hard choice to make when you have fun with almost any of them............but for sheer joy I'd have to say the full-auto's we had in the service. Of those (BAR, Thompson, Grease gun and Browning .30 M.G.) I'd say the Browning .30. Just load up a web belt of 250 and let her rip off the fantail of the ship after performing scheduled maintenance on it.

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I used to have a Colt AR in 9mm that would shoot way faster than any other semi auto rifle I ever owned. I was frustrated with the accuracy or lack of and traded it on a Mini-14 in 222. I gained very little in the accuracy dept but at least I still own that one.
Again, another reason I rarely part with a gun

I've been very lucky in my life to get to shoot some very fun guns. As was mentioned above, when in the Army I got to shoot a Tommy gun on full auto. That was hoot, and then there was the M3 "Grease Gun" and the 9mm Swedish "K" that was fun too!

Probably the most fun though were the guns in the Cobra's flexible nose turret. The "7.62 NATO minigun" at 4,000 rounds per minute and the 40mm grenade launcher at 450 rounds per minute were a total blast (literally) to shoot.

I think it's going to have to be a Thompson M1. Many years ago a buddy and I were invited to a shoot at Withycomb as long as we brought the ammo. In the weeks leading up we scrounged up and handloaded as much Ball as we could (several hundred rounds), spent a half hour stuffing magazines, and it lasted less than 10 minutes.

Now that I'm not single and the budget is tighter, my M&P-15-22 is about as much fun as I've had in a long time.

I think the gun I would most like to own and was the most fun to shoot
the M 38A Beretta submachine gun. It was about as big and heavy as the Mini-14 but fired the 9mm. It ejected to the left and had two triggers.
The best thing about it was its accuracy. Modern sub-guns try and save
weight and have folding stocks for making them compact. The 38a was
big and heavy (for a sub-gun) but thats what made it so fun.
Single shots and bursts stayed on target. The only other sub that's supposed to be this accurate is the Finnish Sumoi and I'd sure like to shoot one some day.

__________________"I have no issues with people of all types being here, I do have a problem with the more extreme ends of any spectrum trying to dominate and push out moderates and opposites." Bill Plein

Blind luck had me at the local range when the Glock reps arrived with S.L.E.D. officials. They were demonstrating their products and I was shooting my G17 two lanes down. They offered to let me shoot the G18 and I jumped at the offer... I do wish they would sell them to law abiding civilians.